Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dozens of friends of the two recent graduates interviewed over the past week say there is a cruel irony in all this. Both students, these friends say, are generous, ethical and committed to Eliot House. No one can imagine Lee or Sword running off with...
...darling of the '91 World Champion Twins' turned down a generous offer to stay in the city where he grew up and became an ex-patriot for an ex-tra million (and is now assuming the persona of an ex-star). With no dividends, and a waning fan-club, questions about his worth remain...
Clinton focused his agenda as he has not often done at home. Agreements to expand trade and to extend more generous aid to Russia, he told his subordinates, took precedence over everything else. He harped on the subject of employment, going so far as to call for a "jobs summit" at the meeting. Expanding trade, he insisted, was one way out of the stagnant employment that bedevils all members of the G-7 (for Group of Seven nations -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan...
...other ways, the plans diverge. Both versions increase the earned-income credit for the poor, but the House plan is more generous. The Senate plan is more congenial to the rich, phasing in its tax increases (from 31% to 39.6% for the top rate) over two years rather than hitting the wealthy with the full amount this year, as the House plan does. The most dramatic difference involves energy. The House plan's BTU tax would cost most families more than the Senate version's 4.3 cents increase in the gasoline tax. To see the impact each bill would have...
...current proposal for taxing donations of art or other goods that have appreciated in value since they were acquired, she said, acts as "a disincentive for our most generous donors...